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What\'92s the Big Idea?\
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Brainstorm
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topics for a project -- BIG ideas. These may be related specifically to one or more standards, but Big Ideas should not be confined to a single discipline.\
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to continue working on, but be flexible and open to revising, restating, or completely changing your Big Idea at this point.\
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Try casting your Big Idea as an Enduring Understanding statement.
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This should be a complete sentence (simple, compound, or complex) that captures the fundamental concepts that you want your students to understand, know, and/or do. However, unlike a performance standards or curricular goal, this should be a foundational concept that is important enough to return to again and again (enduring) because of its importance and/or its complexity.\
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Ultimately, you want to phrase the Big Idea statement in student-friendly language -- developmentally appropriate for the target students for the project. Look at your statement above. Does it need to be re-phrased for students? If there is time, work on that now. If not, you can come back to that task later.\cf0 \kerning1\expnd0\expndtw0 \up0 \nosupersub \ulnone \outl0\strokewidth0 \
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